Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Mandiri or PNPM Mandiri proven effective in suppressing about 50 percent poverty rate in Bantul. The decline occurred during the last five years. PNPM funds largely for economic development and social infrastructure.

Head of Finance and Asset Management Areas Abu Dzarin Noorhadi, Saturday (03/07/2010), said this year the stimulant of the central government funds are used for any social program is Rp 60 billion. PNPM funding to make the economy move. “If only rely APBD II, the economy will slow due partly sucked budget for personnel expenditure,” he said.

Stimulation funds are also distributed to the public in the PNPM program PNPM Rural and Urban. PNPM Mandiri started there in Bantul since 2006, and the first funding of Rp 40 billion. MOU between the Regents and the Board is beginning the process of obtaining funding requirements such stimulants. “Then the liquid funds that are given directly to the public for use according to the agreed programs,” he explained.